Tracklist Please!

01. Gwen McCray – Funky Sensation
02. T-Rex – New York City
03. Caribou – Sun
04. Flying Lotus – Jurrasic Notion/M Theory
05. Art Blakely – Are You Real?
06. GB – The PRovider
07. LV feat. Rubi Dan & Errol Bellot – Crossfire
08. dWala – Reminisce
09. John Lee Hooker – Country Boy
10. Bruce Springsteen – Fire
11. George & Gwen McCray – The Rub
12. Underworld – Eclipse (Leo Re Edit)

In the spirit of the live shows he did for many years, Fresh! showcases a captivating selection of Indie and Electronica.

Tracklist:

1. “Shadows in Bloom” by GAMES
2. “Castles in the Snow” by Twin Shadow
3. “Bombay” by El Guincho
4. “Up and Down” by Chad Valley
5. “Lover’s Start” by How to Dress Well
6. “Helicopter” by Deerhunter
7. “Let Them” by jj
8. “Running Out Of You” (Memory Tapes remix) by Keep Shelly in Athens
9. “Feather” by Little Dragon
10. “Children of the Times” by Solar Bears
11. “Gold” by Darkstar
12. “Brown Piano” (Studio Remake) by A Mountain of One
13. “Young Heartache” by Bullion
14. “The Most Certain Sure” by !!!
15. “Rusty Nails” by Moderat
16. “Machismo” by Gomez
17. “Froggy Style” (Zeno’s Poison Dart Frog Remix) by The Widdler
18. “Listenin’ to the Records on my Wall” by Skream
19. “Youth Blood” by Little Jinder
20. “Hold On” by Amber Coffman
21. “Blue Calx” by the Aphex Twin
22. “The Libson Maru” by Fuck Buttons
23. “Borderlands” by Tim Hecker
24. “Wenn Musik der Liebe Nahrung Ist” by Markus Guentner

Running time: ~2hr

Back into a regular broadcast/upload pattern we go. Rolling out tonight some of the most interesting tracks from the misshapen spawn of the ever ambiguous genre that is Dubstep, a probably distant cousin of Lemon Jelly and even something that i would swear blind is a techno track.

01. Darkstar – Aidy’s Girls a Computer
02. Peverelist – Better Ways of Living
03. edIT – Ants
04. James Blake – Air and Lack Thereof
05. Starkey – Yellows and Greens
06. Cooly G – Love Dub Refix
07. Nosaj Thing – Aquarium
08. Mount Kimbie – Serged(Falty DL Remix)
09. Psychord – Soup on your pillow
10. Drokkr – Cold Nights
11. Shatterfreak – Slow Motion
12. Leftfield – Original
13. Appleblim and Ramadanman – Sous Le Sable

• dR: Where does the name ‘Beat Connection’ originate?
  Reed / Jordan: Well, its a homage (ok it sounds cool and we love the band so we used it) to the B-side of LCD Soundystem’s first single. Who puts out a song to start an amazing career about how washed up and old they are? Fuckin’ LCD does.
• dR: What should people expect to hear in this EP?

  Reed: We have been compared to a lot of artists, but in most cases as a combination of two or more, I think that many influences shine through, but this is kind of meant to be music that can fit a lot of different settings. Tracks like “In The Water” and “Theme From Yours Truly” are kind of just fun party music, and sometimes thats all you need.

  Jordan: What we’ve said before is that our music is challenging surf-y-psychedelic-balearic-disco-dance-electro-pop infused with a healthy dose of rock and house music. Some people may say that’s just chillwave…which we don’t entirely disagree with. I just think our music is a bit “dancier” than chillwave and has a bit more substance.

  Download Beat Connection • Surf Noir for FREE on Bandcamp:
  

• What albums have you listened too lately?

  Jordan: I have pretty eclectic tastes so it’s been all over the board. Here’s my list: Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind, Yeasayer – Odd Blood, Ruby Suns – Fight Softly, Cut Copy – In Ghost Coulours. Honestly I’m still really into Discovery by Daft Punk. I always make playlists and when I search through my computer and see Daft Punk I don’t see a reason to not put it on.

  Reed: Too many to list, and I’m weird: Nas – Illmatic, James Blake – CMYK – EP, Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha, ceo – White Magic, Cut Copy’s New Single! Also, I am going to go so wild on Tuesday when the new Arcade Fire album comes out. That’s one that I will be listening to all the way through on vinyl when its actually out.

• Are there any particular techniques that you use to achieve your sound?

  Reed/Jordan : Well we use some of the mainstays of electronic music, i.e. side chaining, selective compression, and some of the mainstays of chillwave with reverb and echo etc. But we also do try out some weird things, like degrading audio quality of some instruments by just playing them over our PA and recording them back into Logic. We really like to use instruments in ways like they’ve never been used or are uncommonly used. For example side chaining the flute in the song “Silver Screen” pretty ingenious right? maybe uncalled for…but It’s all about experimenting and being patient.

• How do you think net labels will shape / are shaping the future of electronic music?

  Reed/Jordan: Basically, people don’t buy that much music any more. The end result if you buy a cd is you put it on your mp3 player and thats that, so basically may as well buy digital, from the internet. I love buying dead medium music with big art, but cd’s are essentially on par with digital music, so I might as well save some money and buy some stuff online and get it immediately.

  I think that net labels are going to take over, its already become way easy for an artist to release their music, but way hard to support themselves because labels haven’t really caught up. So there are going to be more artists (which is a good an bad thing) and more net labels to release their music. And hopefully its gonna be a new paradigm where everything can co-exist. Beat Connection has toyed with the idea of starting their own digital label which will use sales money to one day release vinyl. We will just have to wait and see I guess.

• What was your first record you bought? Do you shop at record shops often?

  Reed: Well, this is embarrassing, and I probably bought or was given music before this, but best as I can tell… The first record I bought was a Spice Girls cd. There was this girl in my, i dunno, 2nd grade class who I had a crush on, and she loved the Spice Girls and all that shit, so I bought one of those cd’s so that I could start a conversation up with her….Problem was I definitely ended up buying another one. I try to buy as much of my music as possible, I’m pretty broke so I stream a lot of stuff, and I’m not holier than thou, I download music too. But digging through bins of old vinyl is a past time of mine.

  Jordan: (Lawl at Reed) I think the first album I bought was a Space Jam soundtrack cassette tape that I would always listen to as I went to sleep. The only problem with cassettes is that they make that horrible clicking sound when the first side ends. I would stay awake because I knew that sound was going to happen and I was going to have to switch sides. In the end….probably hurt my sleeping patterns.

  Reed: Oh yeah that tape sound when it reached the end of a side would freak me out every time.

• Do you play out live often? What sort of set-up do you have?

  Reed/Jordan: Well, soon, some of the songs on the EP were made without really considering how we were going to play it, so now, since its just the two of us, we are going through a pretty long and drawn out, but fun process of figuring everything out. A really key component to our live set-up is an MPC-1000, we also use a midi keyboard so that we can control some of synths we made in logic and then play them live. There is also a fair amount of guitar that gets played, and a lot of the drums and bass are played on a backing track through a program called torq which allows us to set loops so that we can jam on stuff instead of being super rigid.

• Any advice would you give to up and coming artists?

  Jordan: Basically, don’t be lazy. It’s really easy to start songs and then not have the ambition to finish them. Or to maybe finish a song but not want to master/fix it. It takes a lot of a effort, no doubt, but when you’ve put that many hours into making something, you’ll love that you did. Also, drink a lot of water. sitting and working on music for a long time can make you dehydrated!

  Reed: Drink beer instead of water. No but seriously don’t get too hung up on getting a label or booking shows, focus on the music and make music that you like and that you’re proud of. Then sell out immediately.

• Do you cook, what’s your favourite dish?

  Jordan: I cook up some sick beats! But no really, when I’m not working on music I’m most likely preparing a lavish dish. I extremely enjoy cooking. I think my favorite dish that I’ve made recently was a green curry with some buddies. It turned out pretty much perfectly, minus the fact we didn’t make enough rice. I do still really like quesadillas though, they’re so easy but so delicious.

  Reed: I AM THE GRILLMASTER.

• If you had a time machine, where would you go?

  Jordan: Well this is difficult…does the time machine fly or do I have to stay where I am when I travel through time? I’ll assume it flies. I think I’d go back to ancient Egypt and try to live as a pharaoh or king or something. I’m very interested in cultures like theirs because science has come up with so many conclusions about it. I’d want to see if it’s actually like we thought. All this minus all the slave labor.

  Reed: Dude time travel is fuckin terrifying. I would have to go to the future because if you go into the past everyone is gonna think you are looney and you are gonna die from all sorts of sub par living conditions or some shit like that. If you choose the future there is the slim chance that people will be like: oh yeah your from the past? Oh thats cool me too, what up?

“Surf Noir” is in rotation on the dirtyradio.org playlist from 2nd August 2010.

Listen to the full album on Soundcloud:
Surf Noir – EP by Beat Connection

More Info:
http://thebeatconnection.wordpress.com
http://www.myspace.com/beatconnexion
http://beatconnection.bandcamp.com
http://soundcloud.com/beatconnexion

This week, Italian producer “Nheap” showcases a selection of ambient electronic.

01. Nheap – Photoperiodism (00:00)
02. Nheap – Eupnea (04:02)
03. Nheap – VLBI (09:49)
04. Nheap – Electric 80s Sea (from “Realight”) (14:02)
05. Nheap – 1997 OST (19:25)
06. Nheap – Improv 2 (23:33)
07. Nheap – Over The Rainbow (26:16)
08. Nheap – Katharsis (from “Realight”) (28:38)
09. Nheap – Kinesthesia 7 (33:01)
10. Nheap – Arctica (36:31)
11. Nheap – O.O.B.E. (from “Realight”) (40:59)

Massimo Discepoli, aka Nheap, is a musician and producer from Perugia, Italy. Nheap’s music can generically be defined “electronic”, but actually it is influenced from nearly every musical genre, jazz to ambient, classical to contemporary, and obviously every kind of electronic music. Nheap’s main influences are Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Miles Davis, Bach (and many many others).

He started playing drums in 1990, exploring every musical genre over the years, particularly jazz and funk (for example on the Vibrham CD by the homonymous trio, recorded in 2006 and internationally distributed).

In 2005 he started playing piano, and at the same time began producing his own music. The first album “Realight”, was released in 2008 by the Musicaoltranza netlabel, and it was favorably reviewed by the press. Some other tracks were included in various compilations.

Nheap’s second full length release, ‘skymotion’ is features 10 tracks, ranging from jazz to electronic and ambient to avantgarde; the drums were played live. The album is available for free download at nheap.com until October 30th 2009; then it will be available on iTunes and others online vendors, and also on nheap.com and acustronica.com.

Nheap is aiming to reach an ever tighter integration between electronic music and music played with real instruments, at the same time not excluding totally electronics or acoustics compositions.

Official Website: http://www.nheap.com

This week LA based Palenke Soultribe step up for a session of breakbeats, electro-dance grooves and touches of traditional Afro-Colombian rhythms.

[Tracklist to follow - please check back]

Critically-acclaimed LA-based Colombian , Palenke Soultribe, have taken electronic music to new heights by deconstructing Afro-Colombian rhythms and blending them with underground beats and exploratory synthesizer sounds. Palenke Soultribe (PST) represents the new generation of Colombian musicians ready to break all the rules.

Interview by Yannick Joubert

Y: First for the fan who were at the concert in Chicago last week. How did you like your experience in the city?

Juan: Chicago is an amazing city. We are happy to know that Palenke brought us here. We had a chance to look around and admire its architecture and public spaces.

Y. Palenke as mini tribe… what music would you listen growing up? Personal favorite.

Juan: One af the good things about being a band, is that you have a variety of influences merging together onto a musical proposal. So for example all us were exposed to old Colombian music like cumbias, porros, etc..when we were kids, but also we had music coming on the radio from Europe an USA. We have very different influences anyway they go from The Beatles, Pixies, Michael Jackson. Even if they don’t fit under the same genre. At the end it is all art. I remember a savvy music teacher saying : ” …There are just two types of music : the good one,and the bad one” More recently The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, FatBoy Slim and Soulwax have directed our sound.

Y. How did you guys meet up ?

Juan: Me (Insecto) and Popa met in 1999 at recording studio in Manizales, Colombia where we were doing projects for our bands. We started to talk about music and felt we had great coincidences and similar visions of the music wwe would like to do then. We started to work on the project under a different name.” Polaina Dinamita” we released 4-5 songs. Polaina started to explore the possibilities of mixing electronica wit latin stuff. years later after a 4-5 year gap we resumed production in a different city, Los angeles; a differnet name, Palenke, We incorporated the incredible sound of drummer Zuluaga who gave us that extra punch we were looking for.

Y. How is the studio life working as a team with guest vocalist, and working on scoring movie soundtrack, how to you balance it all.

Juan: We take every challenge as an opportunity to do something artistic and to learn more. After all it is about using your ears, the experiences you have collected and the tools available. Sometimes we feel we are involved in too many things which adds some stress but that is the way it is gotta be now when we still have some physical strength!

Y. Today’s technology offer so many possibility and you guys seem to embrace it a lot seeing you use multiple controller with Ableton Live. How is the recording process vs. playing live, do you compose directly in Ableton?

Juan: Ableton is a great tool for us. Different producers have their own babies and I am not saying it is the greatest tool ever ( unless Ableton pays me 1 zillion dollars to say it) but it is the one that fits our needs. Both Live and Studio. The main advantage is it lets you alter things without pressing the STOP button. That allows us to create things on the fly. Virtually on the fly. We recently created a remix on a plane between Chicago- LAX. Then you get to LA, open the session in your studio, mix it for a couple of hours and send it over. That simple. It is the workflow.

Y. One of the thing I quite enjoy on your album is the fact that there’s multiple guest vocalist on there and your use of vocoder, the fusion of it all make quite it quite diverse, was there a reason for this. Any guest vocalist you would love to collaborate with?

Juan: Well I think started form knowing that we are decent producers but necessarily great singers. You have to know your limitations and work around that. Luckly we are close friends with great people like Itagui from Locos Por Juan, Sr. Mendez, Toddy Ivy, Pollyanna, etc..so we are always experimenting with different colors. Also, Technology can help. That probably make our records more bearable. Would you imagine Karl Hyde singing an electro-cumbia? that would be sick!

Y. Travelling around and playing around the world, do you keep the recording process going even on the road ?

Juan: We try to do stuff between tour dates. We work ideas on our spare time in hotels etc..Then when we find two weeks off we try to mix in the studio and record the instruments.

Y. Something random, if there was such a thing as brain add-on to bring more possibility to the music production would you get surgery to have the lastest toy?

Juan: Ha, ha! probably not. We always forget to recharge our cellphones, I know we would forget to recharge our brains.

Y. Soundcloud and social media propagation / Youtube revenue sharing… it’s starting to feel like Google and the Itunes store are becoming the new labels of this age, how do you feel about this, do you think it open up more opportunities for band than being on a label.

Juan: Well a label it is not a bad thing. Depending on your deal. But generally if you get a decent deal you will also benefit from their reputation, contacts and history. But it is not a must. You can develop you own thing if you have the time, the will and a decent product . They are great tools out there for a band to become known.

Y. What’s in the future box for Palenke? Dream place to play ? Favorite festival ?

Juan: We are working on our next EP . titled MAR. We just released another one called WEPALENKE. WE like the idea of releasing short records every 3-4 months . Thats keeps our fans close and it is a good way to track our progress. We have a load of show ahead of us that include USA, Colombia and Mexico. We are pursuing Europe and Canada. We would also love to play in Coachella.

Y. We love to share music and would like it if you could share artists we and your fans should check out.

Juan: Speaking of sharing . Please download our latest EP for free. http://palenkesoultribe.bandcamp.com/album/wepalenke-ep. Also check Locos por Juana (Miami) , Sr. Mendez (Venezuela), Superlitio (Colombia) , Blanali (Bogota) great friends and artists.

Y. Bonus Q Palenke Buffet…knowing your music we would love to have you guys to cook us a meal, what would it be?

Juan: Hey you should try the Ajiaco ( Colombian food) . We don’t feel that strong with the knifes and pans but we would take you to Las Tablas in Chicago and pay for it!!! deal?

Official Site: http://www.palenkesoultribe.com/
Myspace : http://www.myspace.com/palenkesoultribeproject

“This is possibly the most enjoyable shows i have done for ages, i source new music every day, and it takes a couple of weeks to filter through and put together some of the music that i want to play out… but there is so much great stuff out there right now in the deep & tech house arena, that a one hour show doesn’t do it justice.. anyway i hope you enjoy the show, let me know what you think…” – Mike.

Keep in touch with the show:
DANCECAST PODCAST ARCHIVE
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01. Secret Cinema – Glad Chord (Psycatron Remix)

02. Chaser – Bite The Bullet
03. John Tejada – Chorgs
04. Technasia – Voyager Eternals*
*check out technasia.com/central for more info on the new Technasia album…

05. John Talabot – Matilda’s Dream
06. The Martinez Brothers – Broke In The BX
07. Ahmet Sisman – Hey Now*
*this killer track is possibly one of my best drops for ages, check it out

Hottest New Tune
08. Kink – Existence

The Prominent Mix
09. Steve Mac & Danny Rampling – Acid Tuesday
10. Adam Beyer – Follow Your Eyes
11. Matt Walsh – Radar 2
12. Robert Babicz vs Rob Acid – Remember

Dancecast will return will air on Friday 18th June 2010 in our new slot on dirtyradio.org.

01. King Unique – Feniksas [BUY]

02. Dirty South & Mark Knight – Stopover [BUY]
03. Lisboa & Luthier – Deubreak
04. Josh Wink – Airplane Electronique (Matthias Tanzmann Remix) [BUY]

05. Russ Gabriel – Woon
06. Billy Dalessandro – Your Touch (Alexander Kowalski Remix)

Hottest New Tune
07. Way Out West – The Gift 2010 (Gui Borrato’s Fallopian Remix) [BUY]

Im quite suprised this tune hasn’t seen an official re-release for 14 years, it looks like it could be quite big and is already hitting dancefloors around the world. Im not usually a big fan of re-releases of classic tunes, unless they are done well. Luckily this one is. Arguably it sounds similar to his many other releases, but you can’t go wrong with a successful producer like Gui Boratto.

For No Reason…
08. Wink – Higher State ’96 (Dex & Jonsey Edit) [1996]

Released in 1996, it still resonates for a lot of people – a groundbreaking track that took high-end acid bleeps onto mainstream dancefloors.

The Prominent Mix
09. Adam Beyer – She’s Got A Cactus Crown
10. MiniCoolBoyz – Poison In Our Blood (Seismal D. Saxtrom Remix)
11. James Ruskin & Mark Broom – No Time Soon [BUY]
12. Cirez D – Bauerpost

The Official Dancecast will return to dirtyradio in early April 2010 as part of our new regular monthly schedule.

Apologies that the show is not the original that went out on Sunday. It seems the podcast fairies took it far, far away.

If you have music that you would like me to listen to please send them to my Dropbox HERE!

01. Detroit Experiment – Space Odyssey
02. Wes Montgomery – Buddy’s Tune (Blog)
03. Mathew Herbert Big Band – Regina
04. Hot Club of Cow Town – Ida Red
05. Martin Dosh – If You Want To, You Have To
06. Soundspecies – Can We Call It Love?
07. Wynton Kelly Trio & Wes Montgomery – Unit 7 (Blog)
08. Abbey Lincoln – When Malindy Sings
09. Horace Silver – Doodlin’
10. Martin Dosh – Kit and Pearl
11. Emilliana Torrini – Bleeder

This and more is available at the intheblackbox.eu website!!!

This compilation is truly unique, started by fans from around the world who have all been brought together by a passion for the band ‘Underworld’ the legends of electronic and experimental music. The music has been made with no rules only a theme of winter which gives the whole listening experience very atmospheric.

There are songs here that will appeal to dance, Electro, Ambient, experimental, 80′s, retro, rock… everybody! Whats more this whole compilation of great original music has been made available for free by all artists involved, this alone should give you the motivation to check this out and you will be glad you did!

Happy New Year!

Download.

More Information: darksounds.org / darktrain.org

Sweet in Winter, Sweet in Rain
(Dirty Compilation)

Tracklist:

01 – In The Black Box – Thirst
02 – The Explorers – Elevator
03 – The Price of Freedom – Travelling At Night
04 – Tin Foil Hats – I Need You
05 – Mental Health Consumer – Eponine’s Walk
06 – LX Nen – Icemelt
07 – Cranks – Particle Generator
08 – Tin Foil Hats – Reality Check
09 – The Explorers – Melting In The Rain
10 – Marshall Watson – Magee, Crying In Heaven
11 – Grandbrother – Quorom Sense